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Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
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Volume 20, 2007 - Issue 1
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Test anxiety and intelligence testing: A closer examination of the stage-fright hypothesis and the influence of stressful instruction

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Pages 77-91 | Published online: 16 Mar 2007

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